THEY SAID WHAT?

“This Government has absolutely no plans to legalise cannabis and the penalties for unauthorised supply and possession will remain unchanged”

- Home Secretary Sajid Javid rejecting calls to lift the ban on cannabis for recreational use.

“Probably most of the Cabinet drink alcohol, the most dangerous drug of all, probably half of the Cabinet has used cannabis, possibly even the Home Secretary - unless they’re a group of very odd people”

- Liberal Democrat MP and former health minister Norman

Lamb.

“I love trains - I must be a masochist. Unfortunately, Britain’s railways lurch from one disaster to the next and no-one seems to take the blame”

- TV’s Janet Street-Porter, below. “You do not play games with the House of Commons”

- Labour MP Helen Jones, chairwoman of the Commons Petitions Committee, rebukes a Facebook executive over his attitude towards the Committee.

“A creative mind can be a beautiful thing but also a pain in the arse”

- Singer George Ezra.

“Misfits aren’t misfits among other misfits” - Singer Barry Manilow.

“What is so wonderful about the EU? Why do some people feel guilty about leaving it? After two World Wars and a proud Cold War role, we owe mainland Europe nothing. They owe us - and the Americans - their liberty”

- Sir Bernard Ingham.